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Pachinko

Min Jin Lee

4.36 AVERAGE

hannahmal1's review against another edition

4.0

emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced

csanchezuk's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

anyaw's review against another edition

3.25

challenging emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

maddybcarroll's review against another edition

adventurous dark emotional inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

eluagh's review against another edition

2.0

hopeful sad slow-paced

First of all I won’t recommend the book to any one because the author is supporting zionist and sympathises with them and calling for the occupation of Palestine ⛔️⛔️⛔️

Secondly, after 75% of the book, it was just full of useless words 2 chapters just talking about sex and I found it impossible to not skip till I reached the last chapter where Sunja visits Isak’s grave.

The story was more interesting when it was about the first generation.

Themes: identity, racism, education, motherhood, survival, resilience, faith, family, land.

Ironically, themes doesn’t match a pro-zio person
Never recommending 👎

chair132's review against another edition

4.5

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

chknugget29's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous hopeful inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Loved the book. Wow it makes want to do a deep dive into Korean Japanese history. So well written, it made feel sad, angry, happy about the characters. And yet, a story that many immigrants can relate to, how we must feel to want to go back home, knowing there’s no home to go back to.